Fountain comb



Feb. 25, 1936. 1.. HELFRICH ET AL FOUNTAIN COMB Filed Dec. 10, 1934gwuc/wbow Patented Feb. 25,1936

PATENT OFFICE,

FOUNTAIN COMB Lewis Helfrich, William Hellrlch, and Oscar H.

' Corvington, Akron, Ohio Application December 10, 1934, serial No.758,884

3Claims.

This invention relates to the class of combs adapted to be used for hairtreatments such as finger waving or the like.

The primary object or the invention is to 5 provide a comb designed tobe employed for treating the hair of the head of a person provided withmeans to thoroughly distribute through the hair a medicated treatingliquid and to enable the liquid to he applied to all parts of the hair10 in proper proportions, and especially in instances where the hair islong and abundant in growth.

Other objects of the invention are to provide a form of comb havinghollowed out teeth associated with a reservoir for holding a medicated15 liquid and means to permit the liquid in the reservoir to be fed atdesired intervals to the teeth.

A still further object of the invention is to have the liquid outlets atthe side of the teeth in order to more efiiciently saturate the hair.

A still further object is to stagger the outlets to enable the liquid toreach all parts of the hair with a minimum amount of liquid.

With these and other objects in view, the invention will be hereinaftermore particularly de- 25 scribed with reference to the accompanyingdrawing, which forms a part of the specification, and will then bepointed out in the claims.

In the drawing: Figure 1 is a side view of the comb partly in 30section.

Figure 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Figure 1. Figure 3 is a section online 3-3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a sectional view of a modified form body of the comb ishollowed out forming a conduit 4. Leading from the said conduit areports 5 which connect to the interior of the teeth. The

teeth are hollowed out as at 6 with the outlet openings l at the sides.

The inner end of the body I of the comb'is forked forming upper andlower arms 1 and 8 as 45 best seen in Figure 2. Between these arms isthe reservoir 3 for holding the hair treating liquid.

At the extreme end of the reservoir is an opening 9 to pour in theliquid capped by a stopper III.

In Figure 4 is shown a modified form of the 50 teeth. The constructionis the same as the teeth shown in Figure 1 with the exception that thehollowed out portions ll of the teeth are staggered in relation to eachother. The advantage of this construction is that the outlet openings 55are smaller than the teeth shown in Figure 1 and consequentlythere willbe less liquid used. As the openings are staggered the liquid flowingfrom the teeth will be fairly well distributed.

To operate the device, the liquid is poured into the resilient reservoir3 and pressure applied 5 by the hand of the operator. This will forcethe liquid into the conduit 4 and thence into the teeth to saturate thehair of the person being treated.

In the foregoing description, we have embodied 10 the preferred form ofour invention, but we do not wish to be understood as limiting ourselvesthereto, as we are aware that modifications may be made therein withoutdeparting from the principle and we therefore reserve to ourselves theright to make such changes as fairly fall within the scope of theappended claims.

Having described our invention, we claim:

1. In a device of the class described, a body portion having a. conduitand provided with teeth, said body portion and said teeth being hollowedout, ports leading from said conduit to said teeth, each of said teethhaving one outlet opening extending through the entire width of theteeth, the opening of every other tooth only being on line with eachother and arranged substantially near the said conduit and the openingof the other teeth only being on line with each other and arrangedsubstantially near the tips of said teeth so there will be a staggeredrelationship between 3 the first and second mentioned set of teeth, anda flexible reservoir for holding a liquid attached to said body portion.

2. In a device of the class described, a body portion provided withteeth, said body portion and said teeth being hollowed out, portsleading from said body portion to said teeth, said teeth having outletopenings at the sides, and a flexible reservoir for holding a liquidattached to said body portion, said body portion provided with an upperand lower arm, one of the arms being longer than the other arm, saidreservoir held by and in constant contact with said arms.

3. In a device of the class described, a body portion having a conduitand provided with teeth, said body portion and said teeth being-hollowedout, ports leading from said body portion to said teeth, each of saidteeth having one outlet opening extending through the entire width ofthe teeth, the opening of every other tooth only being on the line witheach other and arranged substantially near the said conduit and theopenings of the other teeth only being on line with each other andarranged substantially near the tips of said teeth, so there will be a,staggered am, said reservoir held by end in constant conrelationshipbetween the first and second set tact with said arms.

of teeth, and a flexible reservoir for holding a liquid attached to saidbody p rtion, said body LEWIS HEII'RICH. I portion provided with anupper arm and lower OSCAR H. CORVINGTON.

' arm, the upper arm being longer than the lower WILIIAM HELFRICH.

